Movie Reviews & Stories
Editor’s Note: After filing his Muppets story this week, AP Kryza left an unintelligible voicemail for WW.
Our transcription experts only made out the words “lemur,” “sourdough,”
“stir
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The Grand Budapest Hotel sits atop Wes Anderson’s lost world.

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The old, snide rejoinder to an over-decorated show is that “you leave humming the sets,” but Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
may be the first movie where you come out tasting them. Wit
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Bitter pill.

Movie Reviews & Stories
When Better Living Through Chemistry
first started popping up on film news sites back in 2010, it was billed
as a noirish thriller starring Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Garner and Judi
Dench. It was
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The Warriors imagines street gangs as a rainbow United Nations.

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If The Warriors were remade today
(please don’t let Michael Bay read this), it’s very likely it would
become a “gritty” look at gang life in America, punctuated by ham-fisted
commentary
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Three decades on, Joanna Priestley’s animation is as inventive as ever.

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Joanna Priestley knows abstract animation can be
intimidating. That’s why the independent animator chuckles as she sits
before a sluggish Mac in her Northwest Portland studio and hits “play”
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Pledging allegiance.

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Brandy Alexander’s newest
client has been charged with raping his 12-year-old daughter. Alexander,
a public defender in rural Georgia, expects him to tell her why the
accusation is wrong, why
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Harold Ramis will live forever in our zingers.

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Harold Ramis was always the straight man.
He was the voice of reason, the man who offered brief bits of levity in
insane situations. But Ramis, who died late last month, was much more
than the q
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Predicting Oscar’s obscurities.

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Oscar betting pools are won and lost on the more esoteric
categories. How do you really judge a film’s editing? What’s the
difference between sound mixing and sound editing? What the hell goes
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Carrie’s Piper Laurie emerges from your nightmares.

Movie Reviews & Stories
There were a thousand things wrong with the 2013 remake of Carrie.
It took Stephen King’s story of a bullied teen pushed into a killing
spree and reimagined it as what director Kimberly Peirce c
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